Attaching means for bails.



F. J. ENGLE'N.

ATTAGHING MEANS FOR BAILS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 26, 1908.

Patented Mar. 2, 1909.

Egyiwa WW4. MKS/3 hereinbefore explained, a durable association of the bail with relation to the vessel body results, and leakage of the contents of the vessel cannot ensue in View of the imperresult in differently shaping the structural I features. The caps may be readily formed from refuse pieces of metal, thus further economizing in the attachment of a bail to a vessel.

The seats 2 are flat or do not partake of the convexity or rotundity of the body of the metallic vessel so that when the caps l are applied the edges thereof will contact fully with the said seats. The seats are maintained in this flat condition when the body of the vessel is bent into desired form by the beads 23 which act to stiffen the portion of the body within their circumference and resist bending of the seats and insure a preservation of a flat surface for the application of the edge of each cap. It is obvious that but for the beads surrounding the seats and offering a resistance to bending of the said seats, the latter would be given a convex contour similar to the body of the vessel and make it very difficult to apply the caps. In-

point of fact, the scmisphencal cap or ear retyuires a flat surface to hold it successful y and in the preliminary preparation of -'-the sheet of metal from which the vessel body is formed, care will be taken in conflat condition.

structing the seats to preserve said s' ats in By observing this im ortant feature of construction, the plane constituting the edges of the cap or car meets a corresponding fiat plane on the can body when the cap or ear is assembled with. the body, and a much more perfect union results.

Having thus described the invention, whatiis claimed as new, is:

1. The combination of a receptacle body vhaving flat seats integrally formed therearenas with by indenting the body from the exterior thereof inwardly at diametrically opposite points, the seats being surrounded by outerand surrounded by a bead, a hollow cap having its edge fully applied to the seat, a channel being formed between the edge portion of the cap and the bead and the: cap centrally perforated to loosely receive a ball extremity which projects into the cap, and a securing means introduced in the said channel. Y

3. A ball attaching means consisting of a vessel body having a flat seat integrally formed therein by indenting the body from the exterior thereof inwardly below the upper edge-of the said body, t seat having a bead surrounding the same and provided with an inner outwardly inclined wall, a hollow hemispherical cap having its circular edge fully engaging the seat within the bead and forming an outwardly diverging channel with the bead, the said cap being centrally perforated to loosely receive a bail extremity, and solder introduced in the channel and forming a wedge shaped securing key. for the cap.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence; of" two subscribing witnesses.

Joan, E. LINDSEY, Trros. CREIGH. 

